AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3 Edition

This IBM Redbook focuses on the differences introduced in AIX 5L Version 5.3 when compared to AIX 5L Version 5.2. It is intended to help system administrators, developers, and users understand these enhancements and evaluate potential benefits in their own environments.

AIX 5L Version 5.3 introduces many new features, including NFS Version 4 and Advanced Accounting, and exploits the advanced capabilities of POWER5 equipped severs, such as Virtual SCSI, Virtual Ethernet SMT, Micro-Partitioning, and others. There are many other enhancements available with AIX 5L Version 5.3, and you can explore them in this redbook.

For customers who are not familiar with the enhancements of AIX 5L through Version 5.2, a companion publication, AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.2 Edition, SG24-5765 is available.

Chapter 1. Virtualization
Chapter 2. Application development
Chapter 3. Storage management
Chapter 4. Reliability, availability, and serviceability
Chapter 5. System management
Chapter 6. Performance monitoring
Chapter 7. Networking
Chapter 8. Security
Chapter 9. Clustering technologies
Chapter 10. National language support
Appendix A. Web-based System Manager enhancements

• PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940-03
• IBM Certification Study Guide eServer p5 and pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L Version 5.3, SG24-7199-00
• IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Administration, SG24-6191-00

Publish Date
09 December 2004

Last Update
29 August 2005

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Adrian Demeter is a senior IT consultant and technical manager at IBM Business Partner, GC System a.s. in Prague, Czech Republic. He holds the Ing. academic degree in Electrical engineering and technical cybernetics from Czech Technical University (CVUT), Prague. He has 20 years of experience in computers and electronics, of which 12 years are in UNIX and AIX. Adrian is responsible for project design, implementation, and support of high-end computer systems in Europe. He also teaches advanced IBM courses on AIX, HACMP, Cluster 1600, and others. He has written extensively on hardware architectures, UNIX, communications, security, high availability, clustering, and parallel computing.

• Adrian Demeter

Shiv Dutta works for IBM US in Austin, providing technical assistance to ISVs in the areas of application benchmarking, porting, performance tuning and sizing guides for pSeries. He also provides the pSeries and AIX roadmaps for the ISV community. Shiv has had extensive experience in application development, database design, and system administration for RS/6000, SP, and AIX. He has been on the faculty of several colleges, universities, and training institutions where he taught various C and UNIX courses. Shiv has authored a number of articles on IT topics for the IBM developerWorks Web site. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio University and Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from the Project Management Institute. He has a few published patent disclosures to his credit.

• Shiv Dutta

Armin Röll works as a pSeries system engineer in Germany. He has nine years of experience in pSeries and AIX pre-sales technical support and, as a teamleader, he fosters the AIX skills community. He holds a degree in experimental physics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He co-authored the AIX Version 4.3.3 and the AIX 5L Version 5.0 Differences Guide Redbooks.

• Armin Röll

SeongLul Son is an advisory education specialist working for IBM Korea. He has eight years of experience in networking, e-learning, and operating systems in various environments. His areas of expertise include AIX, TCP/IP networking, and HACMP. He is an IBM certified Advanced Technical Expert - pSeries and AIX 5L and Cisco Certified Network Professionl (CCNP). He has written extensively on system management, file system management, communcations, and security.

• SeongLul Son

Scott Vetter is a Certified Executive Project Manager at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He has enjoyed 20 years of rich and varied experience working for IBM in a variety of challenging roles. His latest efforts are directed at providing world-class pSeries and UNIX Redbooks, whitepapers, and workshop collateral.

• Scott Vetter

ISBN

0738491535

IBM Form Number
SG24-7463-00

Number of pages
416